#OnThisDay, October 7, in 1849, American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe died from an unexplained cause after being found delirious on the streets of Baltimore (depicted in The Raven, 2012)
#OnThisDay, October 5, in 1972, Irish writer and painter Christy Brown, who had cerebral palsy and was able to write or type only with the toes of one foot, married Mary Carr (depicted in My Left Foot, 1989, starring Daniel Day-Lewis)
#OnThisDay, October 4, in 1957, the Soviet Union made history by sending the first artificial satellite into outer space (depicted in October Sky, 1999, starring Jake Gyllenhaal)
#OnThisDay, October 3, in 1712, the Duke of Montrose issued a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor, who was branded an outlaw for defaulting on a loan after the loan money was stolen (depicted in Rob Roy, 1995, starring Liam Neeson)
#OnThisDay, October 2, in 1902, Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London (depicted in Miss Potter, 2006)
#OnThisDay, September 14, in 1812, the Great Fire of Moscow began as Napoleon approached the city and retreating Russians burned it (depicted in the BBC series War & Peace, 2016)
#OnThisDay, September 3, in 1939, English King George VI delivered his first speech, announcing that Britain was going to war (depicted in The King's Speech, 2010)
#OnThisDay, September 2, in 1864, the city of Atlanta fell to Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, setting the stage for Sherman’s March to the Sea and hastening the end of the war (depicted in Gone With The Wind, 1939)
#OnThisDay, August 26, in 1920, the 19th Amendment made laws reserving the ballot for men unconstitutional. Some American women were able to vote—due to voter suppression, Black women weren’t able to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (depicted in Iron Jawed Angels, 2004)
#OnThisDay, August 22, in 1962, French president Charles de Gaulle and his wife narrowly escaped an assassination attempt (depicted in The Day of the Jackal, 1973)
#OnThisDay, August 17, in 1585, a group of colonists landed off the coast of present-day North Carolina, creating a military colony on Roanoke Island, sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane (depicted in American Horror Story: Roanoke)
#OnThisDay, August 12, 30 BC, Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, took her life following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome (depicted in Cleopatra, 1963)
#OnThisDay, July 27, in 1996, a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia (depicted in Richard Jewell, 2019)
#OnThisDay, July 18, in 1936, a military uprising led by the Fascist General Francisco Franco against the democratically elected government of Spain started the 3-year-long Spanish Civil War (depicted in While At War, 2019)
#OnThisDay, July 11, in 1924, Scottish Olympian Eric Liddell won the gold medal in the 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favored distance, on a Sunday due to his religion (depicted in Chariots of Fire, 1981)